Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-12

n scene at the JOmcttOns
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GREETINGS OF TWO
MEN AND TWO WOMEN TRAVELLERS.
NJ Quad in Detroit Free Press.
The four OF us were put on at Wayne Junction
the other day to wait for the train on the Flint
and Pere Marquette road-two women and two
men. None OF US were acquainted and we had an
hour and q half to wait at a railroad crossing.
There was a dreary looking waiting room, l2x12,
and there was platform 60 feet long by 8 broad.
The scenery consisted Of:
One water tank
Ten freight cars.
Two f1eldS.
Five telegraph poles.
One pile OF lumber.
As the train left US saw the two women closely
surveying each other from hat to shoes. Each
seemed 10 regard the other with suspicion and
distrust. They entered the waiting room and sat
down, getting as far from each other as possible.
The one dressed In brown seemed TO be saying to
herself:
"Good lands! but what taste that woman has
Whoever saw any one mix such colors together
before? II she Is going TO the lunatic asylum she
are dangerous"
And the one dressed in blue seemed to be saying
to herself:
'.Have got to wait here for an hour and half
In the company OF that thing? Such hiatt Such
cloak! What big feeti She must be some one
going out to work In a creamery, and doubt If
she KNOWS what county she is In.
men OF the human race we stood for a moment
and looked at each other. 1 might have said TO
myself:
and highway robber then 1 don't know grind
stone when see 1t! Wonder when he got out OF
prison? Seems to have an innocent look, but that
Is ali put On. No doubt he got OF the train think
Ing TO rob me OF my "a and return ticket TO De-
troll, but I've spotted his little game and will be
prepared for any move"
And he might have unused:
"O-ho! SO here is Billy the Kid--the chap who
is supposed to have had a hand In abdllcting
Charlie Ross? Probably out on another child
stealing pynpdtfiOn I'm on fn bts and
will spoil it. My. but hasn't he got a hardened
look! That fellow would tear an innocent babe
out against the family churn without one ray OF
pity"
But neither OF US thought any such thing. Even
before the women got seated we threw our grips
down together, and he said:
.Sld BOY, DO you smoker"
swell here's something can recommend
ITO Toledo"
'Good. I'm going there myself. Live in De.
troit?"
eyes. Do you?"
eyes. your phlz looks familiar to me-"
"And know I've often seen you. Let's walk up
And while these two women sat twelve feet
apart, each one with her veil down and her body
arm 10 arm up and down and Joked and told stories
and said we were glad we met each other Forty
minutes had passed away when one OF the wO-
men became FESTIVE 1t struck her that the train
had come anu gone while she was III a reyerie
IL was an awful thing 20 do. She might be ad-
dressing murderesS Tor all She knew, and she
was quite certain that the other woman had at
least run away from two husbands but she finally
got up courage enough to ask:
"Have you the tme?'
The Other gave start OF surprise Did she hear
Alright? IL might be That she was being addressed
by the cook OF the scow Mary Ann, but alter TAX
Ing i've minutes TO think 1t all over, she replied:
mo Have yOu?"
And then both shrank away from each other
again, and turned up their noses under their vels
ana were sorry that they let down on their
dignity. Meanwhile the stranger called me .'old
boy, and borrowed some fne-cut and poked me
In the ribs, and ! called him ''Old rellowr and
slapped hun On the back and borrowed every
match ne mad. When the train came along we
got into the same car and the same seat. The
women came out TO give each other a look OF dis
Dam ana enter separate coaches, an as each one
found seat she no doubt said to herself:
wei. just catch me In Sucn a Scrape again II
you can. never passed such an hour and a half
In my whole life. The railroad company ought 10
be sued for letting Storage passengers into the
first class ladies' waiting room.